retained of >> the 25 years ago today at 5:04 p.m. a powerful 6.9 earthquake read into the record across the bay area the loma prieta earthquake was probable for deaths and $6 billion in dpaj game 3 was about to get underway due to the media coverage that is of the first major earthquake in the u.s. that was broadcast live over national television traffic on the freeways was vacant and millions were watching ton tv this may have prevented a loss ever life as the major transportation structures you suffered catastrophic failures

the bay area bridge collapsed owe the oakland a one mile europe deck of the freeways collapses and nearby factoryw or workers and public works employees climbed on to the brims and pull trapped people out of their cars and it enclosed the embarcadero freeway never to reopen and all arptsdz closed to inspect damage and muni loss services in san francisco marina district several buildings collapsed natural gas ruptures caused a major fire and the bystanders ran hoses with the firefighters when the water system failed and to engines on the shore the mayor helped per twoor years ago

later san francisco and the bay area are rebuilt better than ever do the think i do too (clapping.) i want to acknowledge the people that came together to create today's event to work everyday to make san francisco resilient and first of all, the san francisco emergency of the american red cross and the safe vacation army and the pg&e give them a nice hand (clapping) then there's this beautiful new structure the moratorium for the today's event for families to learn a science including the science of earthquake let's hear it is important the moratorium (clapping) then the fire department ned program and police department

program they'll provide critical assistance to our forpdz let's here it for ned and alert thank you very much (clapping) we have several members of the san francisco city family that have joined us supervisor mar and supervisor wiener kaurm and sheriff rosenberg and naomi kelly and chief chief joanne hayes-white and lynn and mta director really and dpw mohammed nuru let's here it for those folks (clapping.) i would last like to welcome on the one hand our state and federal zoning administrator cesarean and regional john doe i didn't traveling sincere thank you (clapping) and staff representing senator d

and feinstein and mark lien no right away right now we have at about invocation we want to start welcome warming san francisco interfaith director be michael pappus michael (clapping.) let us bow our heads in prayer oh, mighty educator of the united nations u universe i fixed the earth on your foundation we are humid when the forces of nature temporary shift the ground on which we walk in those moments of vushlthd we're reminded of our limitations and yet having fashioned us in our lickness we see beyond temporary surviving that through our

relationships with one another we like the phoenix rising from the ashes arises stronger with greater commitment to seek the greater good rather than that satisfies our perm vaifrz values on this the 25 anniversary of literally we gather to pause and reflect we pause and reflect brown upon our 63 boggs who lost their lives on this traffic day and intranscribe their names in our book of life we pause and reflect upon those who risked their lives then and now in particular your firefighters and police force in turn we pray you granted them endearment in time to make critical decisions and should have felt them when they encounter danger we reflect been the visionary leadership of

those entriftd with the leadership those bridge burldz for the past quarter of a century brought us together and modest difficult decisions and from the rubble to rebuild san francisco the city which today shines as a jewel among city's we pause upon the transformation a transformation that ising 234i9d our collective views to build relationships become vigilant for preparedness and in the best tradition of the generosity off our for beers to extend philosophy we've sought to be co-creators of you oh, merciful one at least let us not

forget but remember october 17th rz not as a day of catastrophe but as a down dawn for the people in ooersz of the relationships and any centuries this we play pray in our own manner and tradition amen. >> very nice thank you director michael pappus next we're going to move things over to our honorable mayor and talk about our new website sf 72. >> bob thank you very much and thank you also for helping us to commemorate 1906 and now our loma prieta earthquake that's it it's my pleasure to join the

fire chief and the department of emergency management and all departments we use this commemoration not only to acknowledge the 63 lives that were lost in the loma prieta earthquake but acknowledge the lives that were saved as a result of the great response we gave to our city and remind ourselves can do we have to do to get prepared bob said we have a communication device forcing for all the resident the 72.org is a way to communicate to make sure our residents are better prepared because we've learned valuable lessons from 41989 and we will not allow ourselves to suffer more because we know that the earthquake is next to come it is a question of when not if so what have we learned we've learned our brick buildings are

vulnerable and we are learning our soft story buildings are still vulnerable we're fixing that with the ordinance now that mandates the soft story buildings as in the marina we're not going to allows to be equivalent i eventually fantastic 60 thousand that residents can be saved we'll mandate the retrofit of those buildings now we're going to turn our attendance attention to our students they're still our students in the city and turn our attention to helping the private schools to make sure their i safer we have 72 hour.org to teach all our residence guess what he was under the desk yesterday literally with the newest middle grarnd in our marina students

their drawing maps of their homes and check listing with their parents wherever an earthquake happens they're treating themselves i join with our frepts nerd program and the neighborhood empowerment at work and all the communicates and i join apa all the wonderful necessary things the management is doing to help to previously prepare use it is not just 9-1-1 and the police and i fire it has to be every neighborhood step forward and saying we will help save ourselves in the first 72 hours this city is also training and retraining each other and while we're having probably the most successful economic

recovery that a city can ever have whether it's the giants helping us or (clapping) yes. t yes. t yes. the mooichlt revival this recovery helps us to charge a resiliency officer with the rockefeller foundation to look around the corner and see what's next, we, help save lives and be important resilient and found out what we have to do to reduce fear and utility the economic recovery of our city and is let's not deal in fear but opportunity to certify for lives this is how we should meet outline all our challenges all

the volunteer organizations from the community-based groups the neighborhood leaderships to our citywide departments let's keep working on all those things together and having those conversations and identifying things i'll be your mayor to invest properly we don't elevate awareness and education we utilize more people and drive them to the 72.org information and then our department of department of building inspection our public works and city administrator our officers what work with the fire and management all of them working together to invest properly we're spending $25 billion in the 10 year capital plan it to make sure our libraries are safe our rec and park department where the people go every day

we're making sure outline i all ocean infrastructures and institutions that safe where else do we need to invest i've got policy and school systems and soft story buildings almost our proper investments we drove down along broadway i saw now the possibility of completing a family housing that used to be underneath the factory site that's an opportunity to make sure we have torn down the freeway to make it safer let's make it opportunity for people to live safer in the community this is all a great time for our city as much as we sigh we want good giants we also are doing our work to make sure we're goal san francisco and everything we do to prepare for the next event

we do that because we love the city and care about the residents our sport teams say if we we support each other and make sure we care about each other we're going to be a greater city not only in the sports but in an aftermath and in the institutions that are surrounding us we'll be a greater city to make sure the lives lost and the people we commemorate today they're the people experiences will not be forgotten by honoring them that's why i say thank you to all our speakers and agencies let's keep making sure we go forward and not only commemorate but utility that experience in a positive for all the positive investments we make thank you

very much for being here (clapping) and so long as mayor ed lee is no fool he mentioned the giants twits how about michael morris with the home run and travis mark feral will be up here in a second he's a hard right hander he has a personal story and announces a story for a memorial please welcome him. >> thanks bobby want to thank you for being here this is effected us in the state of california as a city of san francisco i say this to someone that group in the marina i was on the way back from football

practice on the 22nd and eiring market and sure enough the earthquake happened we got back to the marina district and turned off the wood land drive and saw the devastation the second story windows down on baker and you saw all the devastation throughout the marina this 2r0r78d the neighborhood in san francisco and effects us in so many ways i want to thank in particular our first responders that are here but in particular our fire department that helped to truly safe our marina district led boise by chief joanne hayes-white (clapping.) and the phoenix fire boat that truly saved our marina district and pumped the are water 2r9 bay

the story in our books and i want to also thank the members of the community that have come together since then michael pappus mentioned the phoenix that came out of the devastation in the marina district our nerd classes formed and the fire department thank them the max wells to the golds to the kennedy isabel is here i want to thank everyone this is not just a community of san francisco coming together not only our first responder to making sure we're here together into the future as we remember and prepare for the next earthquake to come what also come out i came out of the earthquake was a

remedy brans as someone that grew up in the marina my parent still will there remembering is a core part of with what we do and proposing for the future the idea around an earthquake memorial around the green that reminds the first responder and in particular, the fire department that truly saved our district and neighborhoods from future devastation but we need to prepare for the future to today, i'm happy to announce in partnership with mayor ed lee and i want to thank the mayor for his strong support we're going to build a earthquake memorial along the green dedicated to the firefighters that savored our district and make sure that everyone remembers what happens and prepare for the future i want to acknowledge the steering committee 0 for the memorial and

acknowledge everyone from the steering committee if you want to stand up and be recognized by everybody (clapping) and as well as artist that are here that are going to be designing the earthquake memorial as well (clapping) this is a memorial again not only teaches us to remember but also rooted not history of the marina district i think the serves us well as we look at the water in the bay and i want to thank everyone involved in the sdinlt it means a ton for the district and more to san francisco the timeline we're going to finalize our design and break in you 2016 i welcome everyone to the groundbreaking next year and thank you, mayor ed lee and chief joanne hayes-white for all there's

support thank you, everyone. >> thank you very much marking mark the time is here in a minute i'm going to bring up chief joanne hayes-white to talk e talk about the nert program i want to do a couple of songs on my album we have about a minute to 5 to 4 i'm going to bring up my good friend chief joanne hayes-white can you explain what this is the ringing the bells and 504 i think. >> good afternoon, everyone i will be speaking again, after to acknowledge a lot of people but gives me great pleasure to ring the bell for the memorial of the lives lost in 1989 signaling the final event of what happened 25 years ago. >> the property loss and how

lucky we are to live here with those folks and the moment of silence will follow the ringing of the bell should this is a celebration off how far we've come we're more vibrant than ever with the new roads so here this is about 10 seconds to 504 let's let that given now (bell ringing). >> and now a moment of silence let's bow our heads

thank you very much everybody now, it's ply pleasure to bring up to the podium one of my great if i understand jingling to discuss some of the things chief welcome. >> thanks bob (clapping.) good afternoon everyone and thank you for that slum moment it is a pleasure to be i think everyone remembers where they were 25 years ago i was not not in the fire department we had a big game at our high school the lights went out and the jim shock it is near ocean and 43 land but what i saw and widow i knew i was going to be entering the fire department was our great community people

automatically stepped up and rahm emanuel gunmaning the intersection i support a great city i'm proud to be a native san franciscan when i entered the fire department shortly thereafter, in 1990 what came of the loma prieta earthquake was the ability to recognize how engaged our community is from that the nert program was born the neighborhood emergency response program i was one of the original instructors and it is an incredible program people helping people getting prepared in the workplace we all know the more prepared it is easier to respond and quicker into the recovery phase affair for all you have participated in the nert program please stand up or

raise your hand it was completely volunteer so thank you very much (clapping.) and the program itself was start i don't know in my if i'm going to get to the current person but all her poeshgs this is stated by frank woody allen net and patty to have brought the program to where it is when i became the chief of the department in 2004 selected the probability most senior nert crossroad that's e.r. ray can thank you, very much. this is not just a job but a passion i'm proud to work you with for the lives you've changed and nert executive board for spreading

the word and i would be amiss to not acknowledge dennis and original nerts as well as the rec and park department and gail thank you for all you do and recognizing the importance of safe nert and behind the scenes someone i didn't have the opportunity to work with but truly in the san francisco fire department there's no denying he's the son of assistant chief frank he was passionate about the water system and as supervisor farrell described saved the marina was able to pump copious amazes of water from the bay when the system failed in the marina

thank you. i'm sure it's a special day i want to acknowledge my colleagues in the city departments we've worked together better than we ever had on the direction of the mayor ed lee when he was the director of public works a hands on mayor and prioritize public safety on an everyday basis so forming those relationships in a non entering emergency makes us you'll work together in an now and then emergency situation and supervisor mar who's the champion of pedestrian safety and supervisor farrell a native san franciscan i also see a friendly sxheegs about the police and fire and there's going to be a cook off, of course, you know who i'm going to be roolt for 81 thank you for coming out it's a perfect opportunity to encourage our

neighbors to be in a nert program go on the website and see when the emergency program put together there's no excuse not to be prepared and we encourage you to do so and keep in mind those that lost their lives 25 years ago today and never will forget them thank you (clapping) oh, thank you. >> thank you, chief we are going to have some fun in a few minutes but i'll be putting open a cheefsz hat i do want tiff to finish up to talk about the partnership within pg&e one of our sponsors and the american red cross bay area so to that end please welcome the ceo of american red cross and

pg&e vice president of emergency preparedness and response bearing anderson gentlemen come on up (clapping.) good evening. i'm just curiosities i want to see a show which hands who were here on the actual event so a majority of people you may recall after the earthquake the r50kd volunteers ma of whom were personally impacted began to work side by side 8 thousand r50kd volunteers provided supplies houses nearly 70 thousand people and he served over 6 thousand meals and distributed a blanket and closing neighbors helping neighbors american red cross is about training people and preparedness and bringing people

into to be volunteers and literally turning around to help their neighbors we helped to rebuild and fund a number of homes in various community around the bay area as well as drilling for new wells and are repairing water pumps the disasters are about people coming together than that about cities falling apart we gambling became stronger and more resilient look around you getting ready for the next disaster at home school and at work is crucial and no one agency can it did do it alone that's why we're happy to have our partnerships with the city of san francisco city of oakland and the california arthur and the salvation army to name a few

let me say more do pg&e pg&e has been an invaluable partner to the american red cross in helping us respond and prepare to disasters together with our award-winning initiative we've reached over one million community london breed's with the preparedness activities and established the relationships that are 150esh8 to the ability to recovery and become stronger after a natural disaster a culture in which neighbors help neighbors each are excepted with the acknowledge we need as well as the valuable connections to our community near the what happens near the what is lost let's be there by committing to be prepared and encouraging our loved ones to be prepared also